Quotes about Achievement

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

If people are not laughing at your goals,then your goals are too small

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that "freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.